patress

English

Alternative forms

• pattress

Etymology

Alteration of pateras, from Latin patera (“dish, saucer”).

Noun

A single (1 gang) white plastic surface pattress box

patress (plural patresses)

1. an adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, eg in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface

See also

• patress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “pattress” in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Pasters, pasters, repasts, sparest